[Gllug] Random freezes

Jack Bertram jack at jbertram.net
Mon Jan 24 16:25:44 UTC 2005


* Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> [050124 10:32]:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Martin A. Brooks uttered the following:
> > Jack Bertram wrote:
> > 
> >>Ubuntu.  Since then, it has begun to intermittently freeze.  Sometimes
> >>this is preceded by the root filesystem becoming readonly.
> > 
> > Take a look at /etc/fstab and you'll most likely see that your entry
> > for / contains "errors=remount-ro".  From what you've described it
> > sounds like you have file system corruption.
> 
> If you log over the network as well as locally, you'll get messages
> logged about this on the remote logging machine. :)

Any suggestions for doing this securely over the internet? I don't have
any other local Linux machines

> (I log kernel messages locally and remotely, so that if the network
> implodes due to a kernel bug I still get info about the bug logged.
> Everything else goes to the remote loghost only.)
> 
> 
> `dmesg' might show you interesting things after such an event
> (before rebooting, of course).

Hmmm.  I don't think I've tried that.  (D'oh)

jack
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